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I explored three data sets today, and realized that I had selected quite a few data sets for my research question. I believe that I need to make my research question a bit more pointed and specific, but first I am going to run some more data through Python to see what variables jump out at me.

Count/Percentage of respondents who had received family planning education (1=yes)

Count/Percentage of respondents to whether or not they could use birth control once aroused (1=very sure)

In the first question, survey participants were asked if they had ever had sex before. Surprisingly, more than have (59%) have not ever had heterosexual/vaginal intercourse. Almost 40% responded yes (1). A small percentage (<2%) refused (6), didn't know (8), or responded that it did not apply (9).

The second set of data asked the participants if they had received family planning counseling in the past year. Unfortunately, 94% of respondents had not. Slightly less than 6% responded that they had, which leads me to believe that participants either (1) might not know the term "family planning" or (2) are using their own accumulated knowledge (from friends or family) in their sex lives.

My third chart shows the responses from the question, "If you wanted to use birth control, how sure are you that you could stop yourself and use birth control once you were highly aroused or turned on?" The highest response to this question is 1 (33.19%) which means "very sure". This is not surprising to me, as I think most people would like to think that they would be able to stop. The second highest is 97 (31.35%) which is legitimate skip. After that, the percentages drop greatly; 11% of respondents are "moderately sure" (2) of their ability to pause sex for birth control use.

This exercise has brought up some more questions I want to explore. Also, I need to put an age restriction to make sure that I am only getting responses from young adults under that age of 20 or so. With so many variables, which can all point to differences self-confidence and knowledge levels, I believe I need to make my research question even more focused.